Comb for cutting and thinning the hair



Ot. 23, 1934. LJAGOSTINL 1,977,933

COMB FOR CUTTING AND THINNING THE HAIR Original Filed Oct. 2. 1931 Patented Oct. 23, 1934 I y l COMB FOR CUTTING AND THINNING THE HAIR Leon Agostini, Paris, France Original application October 2, 1931, Serial No.

Divided and this application January 27, 1933, Serial No. 653,931. In France July 11,

1 Claim.

The present invention relates to a comb adapted for cutting and thinning the hair while it is being dressed.

For this purpose, the said comb is characterized by the fact that it comprises cutting elements mounted crosswise of the comb teeth, thus providing between the teeth suitable cutting parts which will act upon the hair during the combing operation.

The device according to the invention is so constructed that the effective cutting parts do not follow one another in a continuous line in the spaces between the comb teeth in which case the hair would be cut off too sharply, but such parts are situated at variable heights between the teeth, thus thinning out the hair and obtaining a graduated cut.

By the use of a comb of this construction, it

will therefore be possible to cut the hair, when.

divided up by the comb, by 'a simple combing operation which is properly performed and repeated. By the said device, this operation can be effected while dressing or arranging the hair, thus assuring the out which is most suitable for each arrangement of the hair. 0n the other hand, owing to its ready handling in which the familiar motions of the hairdressing are followed the device can be employed by all persons for their own use and without requiring any recourse to a professional hairdresser.

An embodiment of the invention is shown by way of example in the accompanying drawing.

Fig. 1 is a partial elevational view of the comb provided with cutting blades.

Fig. 2 is an end view and Fig. 3 is a side view of a set of combined ting blades.

In the device shown in the drawing, the cutting part consists of a toothed blade 7 whose teeth 7a and inner parts 7b both have a cutting edge. The spaces between the comb teeth 1 are extended into the back of the comb by notches 5, and ad! acent these notches are the cut-' ting edges 'lb of the inner parts of the blade. The normal spaces between the teeth coincide with the cutting edges of the teeth 7a. The upper part of such spaces, as well as the notches 5 have preferably an angular form. These arrangements provide two sets of cutting edges which are situated at different levels between the comb teeth and are adapted to cut the portion of the hair acted upon by the comb, throughout its whole width, but at differentlengths.

It is preferable to form the blade 7 by combining a toothed blade 7a with a rectangular blade 7b whose edge forms the cutting part situated in the hollows 7b (Figs. 2 and 3). This arrangement allows the several cutting parts to be readily sharpened, and for this purpose the two portions of the blade 7 are taken apart and are sharpened separately, that is, the straight edge of the blade '1?) and the edges of the teeth 1a.

Obviously, the invention is not limited to the form of construction herein described and represented, but is susceptible of numerous modificationsfboth as concerns the form of the cutting blades and the method of mounting and securing the same to the comb, and as concerns the form and arrangement of the notches in this latter.

This is a division of application Serial No. 566,549 filed October 2, 1931.

I claim:

A comb bearing between its teeth alternating longer intervals with shorter intervals, a gap situated in the shoulder of the comb, a cutting blade having sharpened teeth arranged in said gap so that the cutting edges of'the teeth are presented in the shorter intervals, and a rectilinear blade arranged likewise in said gap and showing its cutting edge in the longer intervals above the cutting edges of said teeth.

LEON AGOSTINL 

